{"id":1328,"date":"2026-10-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:47:09","slug":"solidres-4-5-0-is-here-reports-that-count-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/14\/solidres-4-5-0-is-here-reports-that-count-every-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidres 4.5.0 is here: reports that count every night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Solidres 4.5.0<\/strong> is out, and its headline is a Reports screen. Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and revenue are worked out night by night, so a stay that runs across the end of a month counts in both months, as an accountant or a revenue manager would count it. Every figure can be charted, compared with the period before and exported to CSV.<\/p>\n\n

It also puts online booking on the website a property already has: Solidres can now run as a booking site beside that website, and the booking form that sends guests to it is free.<\/p>\n\n

The release also gives Solidres a place in Joomla’s own administrator menu and a dashboard that opens on today’s arrivals and departures, moves every Solidres update to Joomla’s updater, and makes Solidres pages follow your template’s light or dark mode. It fixes a security issue with bookings made without an account, so we recommend updating. And it starts a clear-out: Complex Tariff and Statistics leave in 4.6.0, and support for Falang is on its way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports, counted by the night<\/h2>\n\n

Open Reports<\/i> from the Solidres menu, under Reservations. Pick a report, one property or all of them, and a period: this or last month, quarter or year, the last or next 30 or 90 days, or a range of your own. Rows can be grouped by day, week or month.<\/p>\n\n\"The\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
The three reports in Solidres 4.5.0<\/caption>\n\t
Report<\/th>\n\t\t\tWhat it shows<\/th>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t<\/thead>\n\t
Performance<\/th>\n\t\t\tOccupancy, ADR, RevPAR, room revenue and room nights over time<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t
Revenue<\/th>\n\t\t\tRoom revenue, extras, fees, booking discounts and total revenue for each period, with the tax, tourist tax and discounts beside them<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t
Booking sources<\/th>\n\t\t\tBookings, room nights, revenue and its share, ADR and average stay for each source, the biggest earner first<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Why night by night matters<\/h3>\n\n

A booking from 29 March to 3 April is three nights in March and two in April. A report that files the whole stay under its check-in date puts all five nights, and all the money, in March, and April looks emptier than it was. Solidres counts each night in the period it falls in, with its share of the booking’s money, so a month’s occupancy and revenue are that month’s. Cancelled and trashed bookings never count, and each currency gets its own figures rather than being added together.<\/p>\n\n

Read at a glance<\/h3>\n\n

The headline figures show their change against the period before, above a chart and a sortable table with totals. Every report exports to CSV and prints on light paper, and the screen follows the administrator template’s light or dark mode.<\/p>\n\n

Reports has its own permission. With the ACL plugin enabled, only the groups you grant it in Solidres Options → Permissions see the menu item and the screen. On a Hub site, partners get the same reports on the site for the properties they own or staff, with Hub 2.4.0.<\/p>\n\n

More with the Reports plugin<\/h3>\n\n

The new Reports plugin adds Compare with<\/i>, against the previous period or the same period last year, and Break down by<\/i> period, property or room type. It adds cancellation rate and lead time to Booking sources, and six more reports: Production, Cancellations, Payments, Balances due, Guests, and Rate plans and coupons. The add-on releases<\/a> describe each one.<\/p>\n\n

What older bookings can tell you<\/h3>\n\n

To count by the night, each booked room now keeps the price of each of its nights, which a booking used to throw away once it was priced, and a booking records when it was cancelled. Bookings made before 4.5.0 have neither. Their room price is spread evenly over the stay, and the report says how much of its figures that covers.<\/p>\n\n

Online booking for the website you already have<\/h2>\n\n

Most small properties already have a website, on WordPress, Wix or an agency’s hands, and what they ask for is not a new one but a Book now<\/i> that is not an OTA link. Solidres 4.5.0 gives them that. In Solidres Options → Website, set Site shape<\/i> to Booking site<\/i> and enter your main website’s address: Solidres becomes the booking pages beside it, on an address of their own such as book.your-hotel.com<\/i>, the way an airline’s booking pages sit beside its website. With Lumina the header carries your logo and a Back to<\/i> link to your website instead of a menu. The booking site asks search engines not to list it, so your own website stays the result for your property’s name. Rooms, extras, checkout and payment are exactly the same as on a full website, and you can switch back at any time.<\/p>\n\n

On your website, paste the booking form: the same search bar as the Check availability module, with dates, guests and rooms and a search button that open the booking site with the search made, or a single Book now<\/i> button. It was the Hub’s embed form; it is now part of Solidres and free on every site, and a code pasted from the Hub’s version needs replacing with the new one. Find it under the Solidres menu → System → Booking form, with a preview, a plain HTML version for page builders that remove scripts, and where to paste it in WordPress, Wix and Squarespace. The Getting started<\/i> card on a booking site asks you to put the form on your website, and ticks when the first search arrives through it.<\/p>\n\n

A back office that opens on today<\/h2>\n\n

Solidres in Joomla’s menu<\/h3>\n\n

Solidres has its own entry in Joomla’s administrator menu, right below Home Dashboard, with the same groups as before. It replaces the menu that sat beside each Solidres list, so lists use the full width of the screen. On a phone it is behind Joomla’s menu button. The unread count stays on the Reservations link.<\/p>\n\n

Today’s arrivals and departures, first thing<\/h3>\n\n

The dashboard icon beside Solidres in the menu opens a Solidres dashboard, with a card for each menu group that follows the features you have enabled and each user’s permissions. At its top, and at the top of Joomla’s home page where everyone lands after logging in, are four live counts: today’s arrivals, departures and in-house guests, and the unread reservations. Each tile opens the Reservations list filtered the same way, so the number on the tile is the number of rows. The Reservations list itself gains an In-house<\/i> filter for the reservations staying on any day.<\/p>\n\n

Getting started<\/h3>\n\n

A new site gets a Getting started<\/i> card beside the tiles: the steps from a fresh install to a first booking, which tick themselves off as you complete them. Name the property and give it an email address, set the time zone, add room types, set rates, choose how guests pay, enter your Download ID, replace the placeholder text of your pages and make a test booking. Each step opens the screen where it is done, and the card disappears once the required steps are. An established site does not get it, since its steps are long done, but it can be added from System → Administrator Modules<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\"The\n\n

For staff who run the booking site and need nothing else of Joomla, a custom administrator menu can import the new Solidres back office<\/i> preset: the Solidres groups, then the website, users, system and help items they need.<\/p>\n\n

Four modules join Solidres<\/h3>\n\n

The Quick search<\/i> module, which finds a reservation from the administrator’s dashboard, and three site modules, Availability<\/i>, Extras<\/i> and Tracking<\/i>, are now part of Solidres. They are free, and install and update with it. A site that has them keeps its modules and their settings.<\/p>\n\n

Updates come through Joomla<\/h2>\n\n

Solidres no longer runs an update check of its own. It used to contact solidres.com from your administrator pages, sending the list of your Solidres extensions and their versions. Joomla’s updater finds Solidres updates instead: they are listed in System → Update<\/i> with the rest of your site, and Check updates<\/i> on the System page runs that same check.<\/p>\n\n

The Download ID you enter once in Solidres Options now reaches every Solidres extension. Saving Solidres Options writes it to every Solidres update site, installing an extension copies it to that extension’s update site, and every download Joomla makes from solidres.com carries it. Nothing has to be pasted into System → Update Sites<\/i> any more. The System page shows, for each Solidres extension, whether Joomla can update it, and if not, why.<\/p>\n\n

The add-ons follow: every plugin and module now has an update stream. Most need installing once by hand to get there; the add-on post<\/a> has the list.<\/p>\n\n

Dark mode that follows your template<\/h2>\n\n

Solidres styles used to switch to dark whenever the visitor’s device was set to dark. On a template without a dark mode, such as Cassiopeia, that meant dark Solidres panels, calendars and forms on a light page. Solidres now follows the light or dark mode your template declares, and Joomla’s theme switch: a light template stays light, and a template with a dark mode gets dark Solidres pages with it. The date pickers follow the page too, and printing always comes out light.<\/p>\n\n

Booking and administration fixes<\/h2>\n\n